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Cathy Tie slips on a white lab coat bearing her name and the logo of her startup: Origin Genomics. "Welcome!" she says as she leads an NPR reporter, photographer and videographer on an exclusive tour of Origin's labs located...

This is the 17th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. The series is organized by Osagie K. Obasogie in...

THE INSTAGRAM POST, precision-guided by sex and age, had zeroed in on its target. Yuchen Tu is a conser­vatory-trained viola...

This is the 16th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...

By Regina Wang, Newsobserver.com | 06.23.2011
RALEIGH -- For more than 40 years, Charles Holt swallowed the shame and anger of being sterilized by the state...
By Robert Weisman, Boston Globe | 06.22.2011
Biotechnology industry leaders want to speed up the process of bringing drugs to market by broadening the mission of the...
By Keith Darce, Sign On San Diego | 06.22.2011
A divided oversight committee of California’s $3 billion stem cell research institute selected Los Angeles investment banker and attorney Jonathan...
By Onche Odeh, Independent Online | 06.22.2011
The absence of a regulatory framework for fertility treatment in Nigeria has continually put a growing number of couples in...
By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times | 06.21.2011

The Beverly Hills fertility doctor who helped Nadya Suleman give birth to octuplets is asking the Los Angeles County Superior...

By Patricia Cohen, New York Times | 06.19.2011

It was less than 20 years ago that the National Institutes of Health abruptly withdrew funds for a conference on...

By NPR, National Public Radio | 06.17.2011

Britain has dropped a policy of using DNA tests to identify the nationality of African refugees and asylum seekers after...

By Steve Jones, BBC News | 06.16.2011

Type the phrase "scientists find the gene for" into Google and 68,000 results appear. Most of the hits are about...